Self- Love Meditation
Originally taught by Yogi Bhajan on 4/5/94
Also known as Reverse Adi Shakti Kriya
“Love doesn’t rule you. What rules you is fear, phenomenal fear. Through this kriya, love can be invoked and fear can be reduced.”
-Yogi Bhajan
This kriya helps to open the heart, create a positive relationship to the self, and make yourself available to receive love.
Part 1
This exercise is called Reverse Adi Shakti Kriya. Here you are mentally and hypnotically blessing yourself. This self-blessing is to affect and correct the magnetic field. It is said that doing this exercise will hurt if you have a lot of anger. Self-help is very difficult for those who are angry. After doing this exercise for 5 minutes your muscles may start hurting if your diet needs cleaning up. The taste in your mouth will change if you are breathing correctly.
Posture: Sit in Easy Pose with a straight spine and hold your right palm six to nine inches above the top center of your head. The right palm faces down, blessing you. This self-blessing corrects the aura. The left elbow is bent with the upper arm near the rib cage. The forearm and hand point upward. The left palm faces forward and blesses the world.
Eyes: The eyes are closed and focus at the lunar center in the middle of the chin.
Breath: Breathe long, slow, and deep with a feeling of self-affection. Try to bring the breath to one breath per minute: Inhale for 20 seconds, hold for 20 seconds, exhale for 20 seconds.
Time: Continue for 11 minutes. Then inhale deeply and move slowly and directly into position for Exercise 2.
Part 2
This exercise will benefit everything between the neck and navel. It will give strength to the heart and will open up the heart center.
Posture: Extend your arms straight out in front, parallel to the ground, palms facing down. Stretch out to your maximum.
Eyes: The eyes are closed and focused at the lunar center in the center of the chin.
Breath: The breath is long, slow, and deep.
Time: Continue for 3 minutes. Then inhale deeply and move slowly and directly into position for Exercise 3.
Part 3
Posture: Stretch your arms straight up with the palms facing forward. There is no bend in the elbows.
Eyes: The eyes are closed and focused at the lunar center.
Breath: The breath continues to be long, slow, and deep.
Time: Continue for 3 minutes.
To finish: Inhale, hold your breath for 10 seconds while you stretch your arms upward (try to stretch so much that your buttocks are lifted) and tighten all the muscles of your body. Exhale. Repeat this sequence two more times.
Comments: "Can you spare seventeen minutes for yourself in twenty-four hours? This meditation will totally change you from the inside out. It will give you self-consciousness, self-experience, self-love and then you can love everybody. Become total."
-Yogi Bhajan
How to Awaken our Divine Feminine Energy
When we awaken our divine feminine aspects we are invoking the characteristics of the Goddess within. Allowing ourselves to express these divine qualities through emanating our spiritual powers and by activating kundalini (Shiva/Shakti) energy within.
Kundalini Shakti energy lies dormant in the base of our spine, each portal opens us to the opportunity of activating more spiritual awareness and different perspective on life.
And when we align ourselves with goddess energy, we shift into receptivity mode and from this space we can manifest our desires effortlessly.
3 things you can do right now to activate your feminine energy are:
1. Begin to heal your negative patterns
Practicing becoming aware of your patterns through surrender, letting go of your old stories of where people have caused you pain. Learning to recognize those experiences as a divine teacher coming to show you the light, through the veils of darkness. It is from this neutral space we can forgive.
We do this by invoking KALI and by confronting the ego- all things keeping us from our goddess selves. The act of confront allows the sleeping serpent energy to awaken and begin to raise up the spine.
A forgiveness ritual can also assist us in forgiveness of the self, not only that, but it cultivates self love which brings more confidence in who we are and how we express ourselves in the world.
To unlock divine feminine energies, you need to heal, release your subconscious programming by acceptance, and release of judgement.
To heal your outdated subliminal programs fully, requires a safe space which is based on trust and boundaries, such as working with a coach or joining a sacred sisterhood.
2. Awaken your creativity.
As our energy begins to raise through up our higher centers, up into the navel (our power center) we begin to see how to the world is creating itself around us as a result of our thoughts, actions, and deeds. This power of true creative energy can seem daunting at first once this realization sets in, however in time, we see this as the most powerful gift we can ever attain!
Awakening this creative energy, in this profound way, is invoking the goddess Saraswati.
Being in control of your thoughts and feelings allows for a relationship with manifestation that once mastered, can create all good things in life that you desire.
3. Open your third eye.
This is when we have full activated our creative divine feminine energy, we are able to connect with source as a celestial command center, willing into our lives all things that serve our higher destiny.
Opening the third eye inspires a vividness in our imagination that can ignite our energy and put us on a path of divine service to others in the same way we have been seeking for ourselves in our past spiritual journey toward awakening. This is Lakshmi energy, abundant energy of all things.
Allow yourself to express yourself in the way the divine wants to express through you… this is true freedom.
The Shadow: A Source of your Infinite Divine Power
Don’t try to tame her. Don’t try to box her in. Don’t try to quiet her storm. Her wild spirit leads her home where she explores all the layers and dimensions of existence, where she travels to cosmic depths unknown and touches universal truths and expands on all that is unseen but felt, all that scares and scars but needs to be touched. When she returns and grounds her feet in the damp soil, quivering but courageous, her heart cracks open allowing all her jewels and treasures picked up along her quest to pour out. Liquid gold for all to be nourished from. From the journeys into the shadows to the light and back again, our inner wild woman evolves for her own soul’s sake while her honey feeds so many along the way, giving them the strength to rise and claim their own hero’s journey, power and progress.
Beyond the veil you will find the nectar of truth. Don’t be afraid of your darker side, your shadows, as your triggers are the sacred codes to your most awakened consciousness. Through this honoring and acceptance of exactly where you are, you begin to love all of yourself, knowing that you simply cannot change what already is, the outcomes are done, the story has been told and it is all divine. The flaws in your self are really your greatest gifts, where you know you need to involve the strong indication of where to expand. How would we know without this contrast, without this inspiration? You’ve most likely been taught to feel ashamed of emotions, as opposed to looking at them as an experiment of knowing thyself. Even if you’re unheard, unseen, reactive, its only truth is, that it is or that it was. Nothing more. Seeking justification or validation of the story, going outside to be compensated doesn’t change what is. However, accepting what is releases us.
Together as a collective, we’re learning our right to express ourselves wholly, to become this idea of accepting each other exactly how we are. We’re learning to express our truth unapologetically.
Let this challenge transform us and illuminate old parts of ourselves we are ready to leave behind and solidify where we’re headed.
Like kundalini rising from the depths of the unknown we will be reborn into the high priestess, warrior goddess community we are meant to be. We will continue to let our magic shine through and inspire others along the way.
It’s time for the feminine to rise up and speak up. We’re in this together.